Appeal No. 96-2696
Application 08/167,415
eliminating means coupled to said receiving buffer to
supply said compressed image data to said receiving buffer
after eliminating invalid code for preventing underflow of
data in a send buffer provided in an image coding apparatus.
Both of these claims recite "invalid code for preventing
underflow of data in a send buffer." As explained above, in
both the prior art system and appellants' invention an
underflow condition is detected in the send buffer and
corrected by inserting invalid code into the output data
stream of the send buffer.
The references
The examiner relies on the following references (Answer
at 2):
Sun et al. (Sun) 5,247,363 Sep. 21, 1993
(filed Mar. 2, 1992)
Acampora et al. (Acampora) 5,287,178 Feb. 15, 1994
(filed Jul. 6, 1992)
The rejections
Claims 1, 2, 4-7, 9-10, 12 and 24 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as anticipated by Sun.
Claims 3, 8, and 11 stand rejected under § 103 as
unpatentable for obviousness over Sun.
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